(Near) Present

  • Awarded the Bicentenary Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester (2025-2028) to lead a project called How to Walk the Talk: Towards an Aesthetics of Solidarity. I am working closely with grassroots, community organisations across different cultural, geographical and ideological contexts to better understand what everyday acts of solidarity look like, who they are for, and what role an audience (or witnesses) play in shaping them. Project website to follow.
  • Research associate on the CARE Project (funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council) led by James Thompson (link HERE to academic site, link HERE to public platform), a project looking at care, as practiced by socially engaged artists and by careworkers. Check the website for upcoming public events (2023-2025).
  • Completed a PhD research in social theatre around the topic of play/playful tactics in activist performance practices (2022) (book to follow).
  • Co-directed The Festival of Care, a 3-day event with workshops and discussions on what the craft of everyday care looks like. A collaboration between The Care Lab and The Whitworth (Manchester) (2024)
  • Co-organised BITE BACK!: An international forum on food, care and activism together with Alisha Ibkar and Elise Imray-Papineau (2025)
  • Co-founded Defiance Festival: Artists at risk (www.defiancefestival.co.uk), that aims to provide a platform for artists whose creative expression is restricted by political repression and war. Funded by the Social Responsibility Award, University of Manchester.​
  • Recipient of the New Scholars' Prize 2021, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
  • Recipient of Emerging Scholar Award 2020, Common Grounds, Arts in Society Research Network.
  • Worked as a research consultant for In Place of War (funded by AHRC) to evaluate the long-term social and economic impact of support for grassroots arts groups in places of armed conflict and political violence (2020).

Past, bits and bobs

  • Co-founder and artistic director of the international Paris Fringe festival  (2015-17).
  • Teacher at Paris Sorbonne University (2016-2018).
  • Ongoing project: translating into French, Spanish and Hungarian a detailed collection of Social Theatre activities, games and devising processes for practitioners internationally. If interested in this project, please contact me.